Okay, so everyone's doing 3D now, fair enough. I have no idea what high-definition means in this context though - have movies moved beyond 4k?
Lets hope their next title will be in high-frame-rate too. This should be a no-brainer particularly for animated titles. Double the processing requirements again!
Unless of course they go for a motion-interpolation to generate every second frame but the end result wouldn't be nearly as good.
Heh, and I wonder how many newbies put those very same PS/2 mice and keyboards through PS/2 to USB adaptors and think they're still getting the same benefits.
Interesting aside: It's not only gaming that benefits from interrupt control. I keep my computers on PS/2 keyboards so I can wake them up by hitting the space bar. I've yet to see a BIOS that lets you do that with USB and all its interrupt emulation.
These laser pointers are much more dangerous that you might think. Sweep a 120mW laser across the eyes of a room full of people at 10 feet and you've just permanently damaged their retinas before anyone could blink.
Used with care, they can be crazy awesome fun and I have several, but I treat them as munitions and keep them well locked away because I'm aware of exactly what damage they can do.
You seriously do not want these in the hands of yobbos who will wave them in the eyes of the first child they see saying, "Look, lightsaber!"
Well, we're getting OT now but just from the top of my head here's a few advantages of VHS tapes over Blu-Ray:
You can fast-forward all the previews and copyright messages. No UOPs of any kind.
If both your tape and player have "VHS" written on them, there's a very good chance they will just work together. No mucking around with regions or BD revision numbers. (Okay, assuming your VCR and TV can handle both PAL and NTSC)
You can start watching something, stop it part way through and come back to it in six weeks from exactly where you left off.
Look after your player and it will likely work for 20+ years from the date of purchase. If the player starts acting up, you can usually just clean the heads and you're good to go again.
That was kind of my point. People said, "there's an omnipresent field that exists as much in a vacuum as at the centre of a sun, and it does all this crazy stuff".
It's now possible that there actually is a field with the above properties, but without the crazy stuff. Which I think is pretty cool.
What I find interesting is that this Higgs particle suggests evidence of a Higgs field, which has characteristics not entirely unlike that of Luminiferous aether.
Not that I think those people were right, but perhaps they were less wrong than we give them credit for, even if for the wrong reasons.
Look, I get that Wayland is great and all, and in fact look forward to using it on my primary workstations, but until it supports network transparency it is nothing more than a useless toy.
To everyone who has ever purchased an iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac, Big Mac - no wait, not that last one.
Your money helped make this happen. Thank you for supporting Apple and their litigation campaigns against these heretic companies who dare to also make modern PDAs.
Next, we can go congratulate people who still pay for RIAA/MPAA products.
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Nope. Shining a high powered laser in the cockpit of an aircraft has only one possible legal interpretation: murder.
Okay, so everyone's doing 3D now, fair enough. I have no idea what high-definition means in this context though - have movies moved beyond 4k?
Lets hope their next title will be in high-frame-rate too. This should be a no-brainer particularly for animated titles. Double the processing requirements again!
Unless of course they go for a motion-interpolation to generate every second frame but the end result wouldn't be nearly as good.
I would say more of a deep blue.
If that were even remotely true you would know what you, as a US citizen, were then required to do.
How's that working out for you so far?
Heh, and I wonder how many newbies put those very same PS/2 mice and keyboards through PS/2 to USB adaptors and think they're still getting the same benefits.
Interesting aside: It's not only gaming that benefits from interrupt control. I keep my computers on PS/2 keyboards so I can wake them up by hitting the space bar. I've yet to see a BIOS that lets you do that with USB and all its interrupt emulation.
Fair enough, but you must realise that the DMCA is just the USA's ratification of the WIPO Copyright Treaty, to which the UK is also a signatory.
And Belgium.
It was neither quick nor inventive. It was boring, predictable and obvious.
I'm curious - when you wrote that comment, did you have any idea you would come off sounding exactly like the Simpsons' comic book store guy?
Are you one of those thoughtless young people who throws stuff away when it no longer satisfies your whims?
Clearly they need to standardise the sockets and spouts - circular for petrol ("gas") and square for diesel. Problem solved.
That will do it.
Hell no. These are not like knives.
These laser pointers are much more dangerous that you might think. Sweep a 120mW laser across the eyes of a room full of people at 10 feet and you've just permanently damaged their retinas before anyone could blink.
Used with care, they can be crazy awesome fun and I have several, but I treat them as munitions and keep them well locked away because I'm aware of exactly what damage they can do.
You seriously do not want these in the hands of yobbos who will wave them in the eyes of the first child they see saying, "Look, lightsaber!"
Let's see, just to cherry pick a few points in Lenovo's history:
ThinkPad in 2006: Windows XP
ThinkPad in 2012: Windows 7
ThinkPad in 2013: Windows 8
Yes, I can see a definite decline there.
Well, we're getting OT now but just from the top of my head here's a few advantages of VHS tapes over Blu-Ray:
Decent RSS reader for Linux.
That was kind of my point. People said, "there's an omnipresent field that exists as much in a vacuum as at the centre of a sun, and it does all this crazy stuff".
It's now possible that there actually is a field with the above properties, but without the crazy stuff. Which I think is pretty cool.
Just a question for anyone in the know, and I admit it is heavily loaded:
If lead was present in this solder, would the outcome have been any different?
Although servers usually have dual power supplies, so if one power source (eg a UPS) dies it can be replaced without server downtime.
Impressive PSU backplane, perhaps?
What I find interesting is that this Higgs particle suggests evidence of a Higgs field, which has characteristics not entirely unlike that of Luminiferous aether.
Not that I think those people were right, but perhaps they were less wrong than we give them credit for, even if for the wrong reasons.
We've had lots of problems with countries since 1950 and most of them haven't lasted this long.
The problems or the countries?
I'm curious - does AdBlock also block the very worst kind of ad - the unskippable video ads that appear in the actual YouTube video stream?
You'd be happy to see Google, Facebook and Slashdot disappear?
Look, I get that Wayland is great and all, and in fact look forward to using it on my primary workstations, but until it supports network transparency it is nothing more than a useless toy.
xpra is really a pre-requisite for anyone considering doing anything with remote X these days...
To everyone who has ever purchased an iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac, Big Mac - no wait, not that last one.
Your money helped make this happen. Thank you for supporting Apple and their litigation campaigns against these heretic companies who dare to also make modern PDAs.
Next, we can go congratulate people who still pay for RIAA/MPAA products.
Where's the moderation button for "Interesting, but completely missing the point"?